World
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Japan will still require transgender people to be sterilized before they transition
Japan's Supreme Court also acknowledged that the law restricts transgender people's freedom
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Trump’s gay German ambassador is a “vain, narcissistic person” according to German, American officials
Der Spiegel paints a different picture from the man gay conservatives said "lives and breathes foreign policy"
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Detentions of gay men and women signal another anti-LGBTQ crackdown in Chechnya
Several men and women have been detained in Russia’s Chechnya region on suspicion of being gay, signaling yet another renewal of efforts to purge the...
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Pope Francis complains about homosexuality being “fashionable”
Francis said in an interview that the thought of gay clergy members "worries him" and is a "serious matter"
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Gay British lawmaker comes out as HIV positive in speech ahead of World AIDS Day
Lloyd Russell-Moyle said he wanted to "defy the stigma around the disease"
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“I f**king hate gays”: Man goes on homophobic tirade after being denied entry to nightclub
"They should be fucking illegal, they should be arrested, they should be fucking put in jail."
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European court tells Russia to stop banning public LGBTQ events
Russia's ban on public LGBTQ events violates the freedoms and rights of its citizens, the ECHR ruled
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Chinese author jailed for 10 years after writing novel featuring gay sex
Officials objected to a book that contained "male homosexual behaviour"
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10 men arrested for participating in “gay wedding” in Tanzania subjected to anal examinations
Arrests come amid government efforts to out LGBTQ people and prosecute them under anti-sodomy laws
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Scotland introduces world’s first LGBTQ-inclusive school curriculum
Scotland's new education curriculum will feature LGBTQ history and teach students proper terms and identities
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Low voter turnout sinks referendum to ban gay marriage in Romania
After LGBTQ advocates urge boycott of vote, referendum falls short of required turnout threshold
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Alison Moyet says she supports trans people after “inadvertently” signing anti-transgender letter
Moyet signed a letter alleging that an LGBTQ charity was advocating for transgender rights at the expense of women's rights
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Romania to hold referendum on whether to ban gay marriage
Religious leaders and American social conservatives, applied pressure to lawmakers in pushing for constitutional referendum
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India’s Supreme Court decriminalizes gay sex in landmark verdict
Court struck down a Colonial-era law that considered same-sex relations an "unnatural offence"
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Australia’s new Prime Minister says gay conversion therapy is “not an issue”
Morrison also agreed that a pro-LGBTQ school curriculum made his "skin curl"
